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Part 2.

Scientific materialism has become the popular and chronic form of the everyday approach of all people to all of the events of experience. As a result, the primary intrinsic process of participatory relationship itself has become disturbed. Scientism would pretend to be able to create a true and superior human culture, founded on technology and analytical knowledge. Yet, in fact the scientific method has no capability to create a true human culture because it suppresses that which is primary in and of man. Which is the intrinsic capacity of our non-verbal inherence and participation in the World-Process in which we are inherently one, or completely entangled.

Human beings are inherently one with the World-Process, or the Unity of all spontaneously arising beings and events. Human beings are only secondarily knowers about the World-Process. Therefore, if human beings adopt a form of relationship to the World-Process that is founded on separation and separative action, rather than on intuitive and compassionately ego-surrendering participation in Unity with the World-Process, then people will tend, more and more, to interfere, and even lose sympathy with, their own Unity both with the World-Process and the Living Divine Reality.

The Living God has thus effectively become dead or non-existent. Such was the significance of Nietzsche's famous declaration.

This dreadful situation has already occurred. As a result human beings are now in the midst of a dehumanizing, anti-religious, anti-Spiritual, and anti_Transcendental, and even anti-cultural, and post-civilization technological revolution of the entire order of humankind. Or put in another way, the unitive, intuitive, ego-transcending, ecstatic, and particpatory culture of humankind is being displaced and prevented by the authoritarian propaganda associated with the now world-dominant paradigm created by the cult-religion of scientific materialism.

Many traditional religionists would like to pretend that they can provide an alternative to the scenario pointed to above. Indeed there is quite a large and growing industry devoted to this futile project. mUch of it being funded by the Templeton Foundation.

Unfortunately such is a futile exercise because they too, have been patterned in their body-minds and thus their thinking, by the dominant paradigm of scientism.